Charles Lyell to Faraday   7 October 18441

My dear Sir

Being at Whitehall to get maps of the Geology of Durham I crossed the way & saw Mr Phillip[p]s who told me he had written to me to say you were going2, so I drove straight here to tell you I propose to start by the 9 ock train from the Euston Station L. & Birmingham railway tomorrow morning. I have sent a messenger to learn all about the latest arrangements of the trains, but unless on my return home I see reason to change I shall expect to meet you at the Terminus 10m. before 9 ock tomorrow or at my house 16 Hart St. Bloomsbury at 1/2 past 8 ock. I am right glad you have determined to go.

I cannot travel by night without being knocked up & I saw at York3 that you ought not to do so.

Ever faithfully Yours | Cha Lyell

4 ock Royal Institn


Address: M. Faraday Esq

1
Dated on the basis that Faraday and Lyell left London on 8 October 1844. See letter 1617.
2
To attend the Inquest into the Haswell Colliery explosion.
3
At the meeting of the British Association.

Please cite as “Faraday1614,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1614